Characters

Beginning Character Mapping Help students identify the difference between a character’s appearance and character traits using this graphic organizer.

Characters Have Personality Use this graphic organizer to help students identify and support character traits in books they are reading.

Character traits lists – These lists are a great resource for your students! They are designed for easy differentiation in your classroom. Choose the list that is best for each student. List 1 is simplest, with list 3 containing higher level character traits.

Comparing Characters – This graphic organizer has students using what they’ve learned about the characters’ traits to compare and contrast characters from the same story or different stories.

Character Traits Map – Make sure your students can support their thinking with details from the story. In this organizer, they not only need to determine some relevant character traits, but they need to find text from the story to support their choices. This organizer works GREAT with the Character Traits Lists above!

Characters Change – Do your students think about how characters change in the fiction stories they read? This response helps them to pinpoint a character’s traits, describe the problem the character faces and decide how the character has changed in the story.

Thank you for the creative, well illustrated, and colorful activities. I am so grateful that they are free. I don’t mind paying people for their work but teachers are not appreciated for what they do spend. Thanks for caring. Great Ideas!!!!!!